Posted on 06/17/2004 10:48:50 AM PDT by Stew Padasso
Woman Claims Police Used Taser Gun On Her
68-Year-Old Woman Considers Pressing Charges
POSTED: 5:32 pm CDT June 16, 2004 UPDATED: 9:04 am CDT June 17, 2004
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A police officer used his Taser gun on a 68-year-old grandmother in her home Tuesday night, KMBC's Donna Pitman reported.
Louise Jones (pictured, left) said it happened after she pulled up to her house near 50th and Euclid and saw a police car. She honked, and an officer got out of the vehicle.
"He said he could give me a citation ticket for honking my horn. I said it was an accident. It's not like I laid on the horn; I honked, right in front of my house," Jones said.
Jones said the officer went to a call at another home, then returned to her house to give her a ticket for honking.
"He grabbed me and I jerked away from him, and he said, 'You assaulted me,'" Jones recalled.
Police said Jones wouldn't cooperate and hit the officer. That's when the officer pulled his Taser gun and shocked her, Pitman reported.
Jones said the officer shocked her twice with the weapon.
"I hollered and screamed because I thought it was a gun," she said.
Jones' husband, Fred, heard the commotion in his home of 40 years and confronted the officer. Husband and wife were both arrested and jailed.
Police Capt. Rich Lockhart said it is the policy of the Kansas City Police Department "to use the Taser (gun) when someone is being passively resistant, refusing to obey verbal commands."
The couple were released on bond, and now they want answers. Jones is considering pressing charges, Pitman reported.
"I have never been arrested in my life, been to the police station either -- not even for a traffic ticket," Jones said.
The Police Department is conducting an internal investigation into what happened. One of the officers involved has been on the force six years. The officer who used the Taser gun has been with the department four months. Both are still on duty.
Some of those 68yr olds can be pretty scrappy. I had one pull a bedpan on me once. Very scary.
Can someone really be cited for honking?
Typical cop attitude.
Hmmmm
Suspend with no pay for 6 months. Next.
ping
All the police lovers on here will be saying she deserved it.. how dare she honk her horn then passively resist an Officer of the Law????? I guess being tasered is better than what happened to the young man in my neck of the woods (San Joaquin Valley), who was handcuffed in the back seat of the police cruiser for "disturbing the peace", then shot to death by a female police officer who meant to grab her taser... but hey, he deserved it right? He shouldn't have breathed I guess....
We'll see more of these. Taser (TASR ticker) has been selling the guns like hot potatoes
You guys will believe anything.
It would appear so.
Actually they can pretty much write you up for just about anything.
Typical cop attitude.
Yep. Just SOP for cops nowdays.
Can't wait for the jackboot-lickers to come onboard and explain how this 68 year old woman deserved it.
Bottom line IMO: Unless the policeman had reasonable cause to suspect she had a weapon she was about to use, this is utterly inexcusable. LOTS of 68-year-olds are heart patients for whom tasing could cause serious harm.
MM
No you wouldn't. You'd scream like a little girl and wet your pants while hiding behind your husband.
Whoops. I thought you were making a funny
Hellofa standard you got there, MississippiMan. If the suspect is about to use a weapon, the cop may use the Taser.
When can the cop pull his gun -- after he's shot?
Testify!!! Hallelujah!!!
Not a goddamn thing funny about it. Anyone doing that to my wife would be dead. period. More cops should die in a pool of their blood, brains, and whatever donuts turn into in their fat guts for doing that to people.
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